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Community Grants Information
The Neighbourhood Partnership
can award small grants of up to £5,000 from the Community
Grants Fund. Groups can use the grant for local
community activity that supports the work of the Partnership
and the Local Community Plan.
The South Central Budget for 2017-18 is
£57,373
Who can apply? Any community or voluntary
sector organisation which has a constitution or Articles of
Assocation and its own bank account. Please see the guidance notes
for more information. Unfortunately schools cannot apply but their
Parent Council can. Click here for an application
form (Word) and the
Guidance Notes on eligibility and how to
apply.
A copy of the Council's standard conditions of grant
funding can be downloaded
here.
Applications are considered by the South Central Neighbourhood
Partnership at its quarterly meetings. Check the
Diary of Events for future dates. Applications should be
submitted to Margaret
Campbell at least three weeks in advance of the meeting
date.
At the end of the project you will be required to submit a
short Evaluation Report along with documentary
evidence of spend (copy invoices). You can submit the report
in your own format or use ours which you can download from this
page.
For more information on Community Grants Fund contact Margaret
Campbell,
Partnership Development Officer on 0131 529
7182
Previous Grant Recipients
In 2016-17, 36 groups benefited from grants totalling
£77,573. This included funding of £20,000 received from the
Scottish Government specifically for distribution using
Participatory budgeting.
A full list of awards are noted below.
Click here
if you are looking for information on South Central£ Decides -
April 2016
Alternative Sources of Funding
The City of Edinburgh Council Library Service runs a
national database of potential funding sources - Edinburgh
4 Community. If your group is looking for funding then
we recommend you visit this site.
Each month colleagues in the Community Planning Team produce and
circulate a list which provides information on sources of external
funding and local activities as and when we become aware of it.
Each month tends to look at a specific theme eg young people,
education or sport etc. Please note this list is by no means
exhaustive and the information contained therein is believed to be
correct at the time of circulation. Click here to
access back copies of the lists.
Local Community Plan 2011 - 2014
Over the life of the 2011-2014 Local Community Plan 71 grants
were awarded totalling £172,102. This chart is intended to give a
flavour of how the funds have been distributed across the
Neighbourhood Partnership's priorities. The Miscellaneous category
includes those projects which do not directly align with a specific
priority eg Meadows Festival and/or lighting for the Aria Alba
Opera for All group. These projects are nonetheless considered
valuable additions to the Neighbourhood Partnership's portfolio of
activity. It should also be noted that many projects could have
been plotted into more than one category eg Dumbiedykes Mural
project could be allocated under Dumbiedykes QofL, young people
and/or community safety.
